The rule against perpetuities, in particular, often appears so arbitrary, capricious and contradictory that it is not uncommon even for experienced practitioners to be caught by the array of traps and pitfalls that await ...

Climate change is becoming a very important political, social and economic issue. Recent weeks have seen the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report, with predictions of ...

The issue of how best to regulate matrimonial property is a vexed and recurring one in Irish law. This is not only due to the necessarily conflicting interests that must be resolved: how best to provide for spouses and ...

Marine biodiscovery is the examination of marine
biological material for features that may be of value for
commercial purposes. These features may include chemical
compounds, genes and their products or, in some cases, ...

The EU and the Member States are party to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The EU has been a long-standing
proponent of the conceptual underpinnings of the 1982 Convention as a package
deal ...

The issue of personal choice has become central to Canadian family law. Much of the debate derives from the competing models of autonomy posited by neoliberal and feminist theorists. Neoliberalism, which currently dominates ...

This chapter reviews the legal basis in a number of international and European legal instruments underpinning the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a tool for ecosystem conservation and fisheries ...

One of the outcomes of the reform of the European common fisheries policy (CFP) in 2002 was the establishment of Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) to enable the European Commission to benefit from the knowledge and experience ...

One of the outcomes of the reform of the European common fisheries policy (CFP) in
2002 was the establishment of Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) to enable the European
Commission to benefit from the knowledge and ...

The Supreme Court of Ireland recently considered the criteria by which a person may be said to have a “substantial interest” (which is the statutory requirement) in a planning matter which is sufficient to allow that person ...

The issue of employer liability for discriminatory acts committed by employees is complex and
contentious. In tort, the established principle is that 'every act which is done by a servant in the
course of his duty is ...

The new industry of Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) brings together two sets of fictions: the interactive stories of shared computer games and the legal devices of intellectual property. In these ...

If property rights are “the Cinderella of the fundamental rights provisions of the Irish Constitution,” copyright may be its glass slipper, seeking its proper owner. The underlying rationale for copyright in Irish law is ...